Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis
The C Programming Language — A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.
Anonymous
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
Steve McConnell
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging